Topics

BOSTON -- Rajon Rondo scored the Mavericks' first 10 points in his return to Boston, finishing with a season-high 29 on Friday night to lead Dallas to a 119-101 victory over the Celtics. Rondo had a career-high five 3-pointers and also finished with six rebounds and five assists in his first game at TD Garden in an opponent's uniform. The rebuilding Celtics traded the four-time All-Star to Dallas last month. Monta Ellis scored 22 points, Dirk Nowitzki had 17 and Tyson Chandler collected 16 rebounds to help the Mavericks to their fourth consecutive victory. Avery Bradley scored 22 points for the Celtics, and Tyler...

Related "Dirk Nowitzki" Articles

BOSTON -- Rajon Rondo scored the Mavericks' first 10 points in his return to Boston, finishing with a season-high 29 on Friday night to lead Dallas to a 119-101 victory over the Celtics.Rondo had a career-high five 3-pointers and...

Dirk Nowitzki registered 16 points with five rebounds and five assists to lead a balanced effort in the Dallas Mavericks' 107-87 win over the New York Knicks on Tuesday. Monta Ellis and Chandler Parsons scored 14 and 13 points, respectively, while...

The Celtics announced Thursday night that Rajon Rondo, the great passer/suspect outside shooter, has been traded to the Dallas Mavericks along with Dwight Powell. In return, the Celtics get Jameer Nelson, Brandan Wright, Jae...

DALLAS -- Dirk Nowitzki and Chandler Parsons had the Dallas Mavericks on the way to a blowout before another poor third quarter got in the way.Despite the surge by the Boston Celtics after halftime, the Mavericks held on for a...

INDIANPOLIS If you're willing to use one game as an adequate sample size, you can make the argument that the Mavericks' offense looked better without Monta Ellis than it looked with him. The defense, however, can continue to be described in three...

According to nerdy sportswriter math, the Mavericks will play their 3,000th game Sunday. That's 2,814 regular-season games and 186 playoff contests. It's a factoid of little relevance, other than it being a round number and a timely excuse to...

DALLAS Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki is walking around in a joyful mood after his wife, Jessica, gave birth to the couple's second child on Monday. The couple's newest child, a son, is named Max. "I was messing with him saying I...

DALLAS Two teams came into American Airlines Center on opposite ends of the confidence spectrum Tuesday night. The result was anything but predictable. The Mavericks, fresh off a weak effort in Phoenix on Sunday, stepped up their game against...

Monta Ellis provided an emphatic rebuttal Tuesday night to a dismal performance 48 hours earlier. Ellis matched his season high with 38 points and the Dallas Mavericks rallied in the second half to defeat the San Antonio Spurs 101-94. Ellis hit 16 of 27...

PHOENIX Maybe, someday, the Mavericks will figure all this out and prove that they are a team that needs to be taken seriously come playoff time. Sunday was not that day. Just when it looked as if they might be ready for a moment-of-clarity...

Los Angeles Lakers guard Steve Nash announced his retirement Saturday, quietly ending a 19-year NBA career that included two MVP awards. After playing in just 65 games over the past three seasons due to injuries, the 41-year-old Canadian playmaker...

DALLAS On an emotion-charged Monday night that included five technical fouls and two flagrant, the Mavericks rallied from 15 points down to beat Oklahoma City, 119-115 at American Airlines Center. Chandler Parsons scored a team-high 31 points,...

Chandler Parsons and Rajon Rondo were a solid combination on offense for the Dallas Mavericks. And they were tag-team partners for the sequence that sent Russell Westbrook to the bench with six fouls. Parsons scored 31 points, Rondo had 13 assists while...

Stephen Curry had 22 points and seven assists, Klay Thompson scored 16 points and the Golden State Warriors beat the Dallas Mavericks 104-89 on Friday night. Curry wasn't as dominant as he was earlier this year when he scored a season-high 51 points...

OAKLAND, Calif. Stephen Curry might not have to say much after all to promote his MVP candidacy, especially when the chants in support of it at Oracle Arena are deafening. Such was the case during the Golden State Warriors' 104-89 win against Dallas...

PORTLAND, Ore. Dallas Coach Rick Carlisle put it in blunt terms Thursday evening. With 20 games left, he said, it is time "to put the pedal to the metal." Funny, though. No matter how hard you mash on the accelerator, it's not going to...

Russell Westbrook almost made history Sunday, scoring the second-most points in All-Star game history as the Western Conference held off the East, 163-158.
Westbrook had 41 points, one fewer than Wilt Chamberlain scored in 1962, and was an easy choice...

New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis announced Wednesday night he will not participate in the NBA All-Star game in New York this weekend because of a right shoulder sprain.
"After careful thought and consideration, I’ve decided I will not be...

LeBron James was absent. So were Kyrie Irving and Dion Waiters.
By the end, Cleveland's 17-point lead was gone too.
Tony Wroten scored 20 points and hit the go-ahead layup with 9.1 seconds left to lift the Philadelphia 76ers to a 95-92 win over the...